making it look easy: February 2010

EDITED TO ADD - I'm sorry that a lot of the photos are sideways and one is even upside down! But it would take me hours to fix it, so just look at them sideways or something... SORRY!

Ok so I have been wanting to share with my readers (you!) all the jewelry that I have made for a long time now! I finally took it all out and took photos of it yesterday! So here are photos of all the things I have made so far. Well not really ALL of it, because I have made a lot of things that I gave as gifts and didn't take photos of :( But here are the ones that I made and kept :)

First I'll show you the only pair of earrings that I've made :P I made them to match a shirt I had just bought. I don't really wear earrings though, so they are the only pair I've made so far...

And here is the only ring I've made. But I plan on making some more rings soon :)

Now for the bracelets! Here is the first one, it's kind of crazy! But I like it :)

This one is a charm bracelet that I made to wear around the Christmas season!

These ones are just plain beaded ones

This one has a beachy feel to me, I love this color of blue!

This one is so easy! I just put the three peanut charms on a bracelet! I thought it was a funky cute simple one...

Now as I have said before, I am in LOVE with grey right now! I love this grey shell type round beads. And I think these small stars are kind of youthful :)

This bracelet kind of matches a necklace that I will show you later, I love this color of pink with the white and light brown. It reminds me of an old skirt that I used to always wear to the beach!

I got these beads as a gift and I thought I would never use them. But when I actually made a bracelet out of them and wore it they grew on me. I have an inner flower child that comes out every once in a while :)

Ok last of the bracelets (except the next one that I made as a set with a necklace) I had these leaf beads and I really wanted to use them! This reminds me of Tarzan!!

Ok so this bracelet/necklace set was made to match (perfectly!) with a dress that I bought just for Valentines day!

I haven't even worn this necklace yet (there are a few that I haven't worn yet...) But I liked the little blue beads that look kind of like coral...

oh my I love this necklace :) You might have seen me wearing it in a recent photo on fb. I love this color of blue so much right now :)

I'm wearing this one right now actually! I love that wood bird dearly...

Ok so this is the necklace that kind of matches that one bracelet, but not totally...

This is a really colorful necklace that I made to just wear when I am wearing a solid colored shirt that I want to dress up :)

I really love the color red. It's so bold and rich.

I recently bought a yellow cardigan and I wanted a necklace to wear with it. I wore this while on my trip in IL :)

I wanted something to kind of match that one grey round beads and star beads bracelet that I made, and I wanted a necklace that was a bit more casual :)

This is one of the first necklaces that I made! I love angel wings

Another one of the first necklaces that I made. I haven't worn this one yet either, in fact I forgot that I had it in my jewelry box until yesterday!

More grey! My name means Butterfly, so I wanted to use some butterfly charms. And I love tiered necklaces :)

I got this white "tooth" charm as a gift, and I didn't really know what to make with it. I'm not totally happy with this necklace, but its alright

Just a cute little frog charm necklace

I love these green leaf beads I have! I wanted to make a "dainty" necklace with one of them

I don't really need to state this again, but I love grey...

a simple funky necklace with that bright blue that I love

Hey another one of my first necklaces, I forgot about this one too

I have a thing for owls

I made this necklace specifically for my new purple flower dress that I love so much

this is just a heart chain necklace. I can't really take much credit for this one. But I love it, and I did put the clasps on...

Wishbones are so cool. I like to wear this one with plain t-shirts, or with my plaid button ups

This necklace reminds me of my Popi (my grandpa). I think its the feathers, it reminds me of all the Indian things he has in his house :)

This is one of those really long necklaces that falls down to about the belly button. I used to wear these kind of necklaces all the time

Another long necklace, but this one has a cool huge leaf on it!

And one more long one, but this time in gold

This necklace was inspired by Polaroid cameras!

Oh one more long necklace! But this one has a mama and baby owl on it!

I made these two necklaces to wear together, but I've also worn them separately. I love these ones so much!

Ok this is a bracelet that I made last night. I love the big dove :)

Another bracelet I made last night. I love the butterfly, and I love love love the little leaves and flower :)

WHEW! This post took me over 3 hours to make! Crazy! But now I am up to date on showing you guys my jewelry! GOODNIGHT!

So today I was browsing google for a photo for a post I was planning on doing and I came across a stunning piece of art! So I did some digging and found the artist and poked around his blog. OH MY GOODNESS. I wish I had more money! I would totally buy one of his cityscapes or "tree" pieces! I am in love with water color paintings right now. Another thing of his that I really love are his fossil rock series :) What a neat idea. My friend Heaven really knows what to say when she is talking about art, I envy that. I feel like a babbling idiot when I am trying to express how I feel about a piece of art, or an artist. But oh well... Anyways this guy's name is David and he lives in Colorado. But he recently took a trip to Oregon and made art there as well. I suppose he worked in the tech world for 14 years and finally broke free and became a full time artist. Here are a few of his pieces that I am in awe with right now...